of their Scriptures. They saw Him as a dangerous reactionary and plotted His death. The age of law ended with the withdrawal of God’s blessing on the nation of Israel, the Jews’ invocation of a fearful curse upon themselves (Matt. 27:25), and the subsequent scattering of the Jewish people to the ends of the earth. The next age, the age in which we live, is the age of grace, sometimes called “the church age” or “the age of the Holy Spirit.” Marked by patience, it is an age during which God is visiting